statement of responsibility: di don Garzia dall'Horto, medico portughese ; con alcune breui annotationi di Carlo Clusio. Et due altri libri parimente di quelle cose che si portano dall'Indie Occidentali, con vn trattato della neue & del beuer fresco / di Nicolò Monardes, medico di Siuiglia ; hora tradotti dalle loro lingue nella nostra italiana da messer Annibale Briganti, marrucino da ciuità di Chieti, dottore & medico eccellentissimo

On t.p., statement "Parte prima ..." follows first statement of responsibility

Part 2 of Monardes' Historia medicinal and his treatise on snow (p. 386-525) have caption title: "Delle cose, che vengono portate dall'Indie Occidentali ... Parte seconda, distinta in due libri ... ; con vn libro ... che tratta della neue ..."

Briganti's translation of Carolus Clusius' annotated Latin abridgement of the Orta work (p. [1]-257; Clusius' title: Aromatum, et simplicium ... historia) and Briganti's translations from the Spanish of Part 1 of Monardes' Historia medicinal and the latter's treatise on bezoar (p. 258-385) were originally published Venice, 1576, under title: Due libri dell'historia de i semplici ... e due altri libri

For 1589 ed. (Venice : G. & A. Zenari), cf. Arents SA 0094

Name of printer from colophon, which reads: Stampato in Venetia, nella stamperia di Giouanni Salis

Signatures: a-b⁸ A-2K⁸ (2K8 blank)

Illustrations: 28 prints : woodcut ; full-page (2) and image 11 x 9 cm. or smaller. Blocks in first part (Orta-Monardes pt. 1) repeated from 1576 ed.; in second part (Monardes pt. 2) from 1575 ed.; copied from earlier Latin eds. of Orta and Spanish eds. of Monardes. Subject: Indian and American materia medica

Woodcut printer's device (Agnus Dei) on t.p.; floriated initials

"Borgarutio Borgarucci, a' lettori" (advertisement for the pharmaceutical museum of Francesco Calceolari, Verona): p. 381-385

"Del tabaco, & sue grandi virtù": p. 388-406, with large ill., p. 388 (reworked block from the Venice, 1575 ed. of Monardes' Part 2). For discussion of this chapter in the original Spanish ed. (1571) and J. Frampton's translation of selected passages, cf. Arents, G. Tobacco, 15

Includes index

citation/reference: Sabin 57670

citation/reference: Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.), 99523

citation/reference: Alden, J.E. European Americana, 616/84

citation/reference: Wellcome cat. of printed books, 4663

citation/reference: Guerra, F. Monardes, 38

Sabin

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.)

Alden, J.E. European Americana

Wellcome cat. of printed books

Guerra, F. Monardes

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